Curriculum Vitae

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Education

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  • PhD, “Advanced discrete choice models with applications to transport demand”, Imperial College London, Centre for Transport Studies (September 2005).
  • MPhil in Statistical Science, University of Cambridge, Queens’ College & Statistical Laboratory (July 2002)
  • BSc in Business Mathematics and Computing Science (first class), Manchester Metropolitan University, Department of Science and Engineering (July 2001)

Current positions

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University of Leeds, United Kingdom

  • Professor of Choice Modelling
  • Director of the Choice Modelling Centre

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

  • Professor of Decision modelling, AI and mobility research

University of Sydney

  • Honorary Professor in Choice Modelling

University of Cape Town

  • Honorary Professor of Modelling Behaviour in Africa

Current external roles

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  • Editor-in-chief (founding) of the Journal of Choice Modelling, 06/2007 – present
  • Chair of the steering committee of the International Choice Modelling Conference, 03/2009 – present
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of Transportation, 07/2010 – present
  • Editorial Board Editor of Transportation Research Part B, 04/2007 – present

Awards, prizes & fellowships

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  • Inaugural David A. Hensher ‘Best Transport Demand Modelling Paper Prize’, Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), Brisbane, Decision field theory: an extension for real world settings” (with Thomas Hancock, Charisma Choudhury and Panos Tsoleridis), December 2021
  • Turing fellowship: Alan Turing Institute, October 2021
  • University of Leeds partnership award: best mentor category, May 2021
  • 1st place in PhRMA Foundation Challenge Award - Valuing Diversity: Addressing Health Disparities Challenge Award, “Drivers of Health Disparities and Consequences for COVID-19 Vaccine Choices: Modelling Health Preference Heterogeneity among Underserved Populations” (with Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Jamie Benson & Adam Atherly), March 2021
  • Award for the most innovative application of choice modelling, named in honour of Andrew Daly, 6th International Choice Modelling Conference, Kobe, “Quantum rotation: a new method for capturing a change of perspective” (with Thomas Hancock & Charisma Choudhury), August 2019
  • Award for the most innovative application of choice modelling, named in honour of Andrew Daly, 5th International Choice Modelling Conference, Cape Town , “Using advanced choice models to study animal behaviour” (with Marek Giergiczny), April 2017
  • Outstanding Young Member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) for exceptional achievements in transportation research, policy, or practice and service to TRB, Transportation Research Board of North America, January 2014
  • Commendation for outstanding paper published in Environmental and Resource Economics, “Accounting for Latent Attitudes in Willingness-to-Pay Studies: The Case of Coastal Water Quality Improvements in Tobago” (with Nesha Beharry-Borg), July 2013
  • Fred Burggraf Award for excellence in transportation research by researchers 35 years of age or younger, Transportation Research Board, “Review of Evidence for Temporal Transferability of Mode-Destination Models” (with James Fox), October 2010
  • Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust, October 2008
  • 2005 Eric Pas prize for the best PhD thesis in the field of Travel Behaviour Research, International Association for Travel Behaviour Research, “Advanced discrete choice models with applications to transport demand”, August 2006 Neil Mansfield award for the best paper by a sole author under the age of 35, European Transport Conference, Strasbourg, “A model for the joint analysis of airport, airline, and access-mode choice for passengers departing from the San Francisco Bay area”, October 2004 EPAINOS award for the second-best paper in Regional Science by a young researcher, 44th Annual European Regional Science Conference, Porto, “An analysis of airport-choice behaviour using the Mixed Multinomial Logit model”, August 2004

Awards to students

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  • Khatun Zannat: Smeed Prize Runner-Up, Universities Transport Studies Group (UTSG) Annual Meeting, Cardiff, “Investigating the relative precision of GPS, GSM and CDR data for inferring spatio-temporal travel trajectories”, July 2023
  • Thomas Hancock: Inaugural David A. Hensher ‘Best Transport Demand Modelling Paper Prize’, Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), Brisbane, “Decision field theory: an extension for real world settings”, December 2021
  • Thomas Hancock: 2019 Eric Pas prize for the best PhD thesis in the field of Travel Behaviour Research, International Association for Travel Behaviour Research, “Travel behaviour modelling at the interface between econometrics and mathematical psychology”, January 2021
  • Thomas Hancock: Award for the most innovative application of choice modelling, named in honour of Andrew Daly, 6th International Choice Modelling Conference, Kobe, “Quantum rotation: a new method for capturing a change of perspective”, August 2019
  • Chiara Calastri: 2017 Eric Pas prize for the best PhD thesis in the field of Travel Behaviour Research, International Association for Travel Behaviour Research, “Capturing and modelling complex decision-making in the context of travel, time use and social interactions”, July 2018
  • Chiara Calastri: Leeds University Union partnership award for the best postgraduate teaching by a PhD student in the University of Leeds, May 2017
  • Thomas Hancock: Best PhD paper, 5th International Choice Modelling Conference, Cape Town, April 2017
  • Jeff Tjiong: Neil Mansfield award for the best paper by a sole author under the age of 35, European Transport Conference, Frankfurt, October 2014
  • Jeff Tjiong: Ove Arup Transport Studies prize for the best transport dissertation at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, September 2013
  • Qian Fu: First runner-up prize of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies Outstanding Student Paper Award, December 2011
  • Manuel Ojeda Cabral: Ove Arup Transport Studies prize for the best transport dissertation at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, September 2011
  • James Fox: Neil Mansfield award for the best paper by a sole author under the age of 35, European Transport Conference, Glasgow, October 2011
  • James Fox: Fred Burggraf Award for excellence in transportation research by researchers 35 years of age or younger, Transportation Research Board, October 2010

Keynote presentations

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  • ENVECHO 2023, Durham, “Choice Modelling VS AND Machine Learning”, September 2023
  • FAERE 2022, Rouen, France, “One size does not fit all: contrasting the data and model requirements for valuation and prediction”, September 2022
  • EWGT 2020, Paphos, Cyprus, “Travel behaviour modelling with novel data sources”, September 2020
  • Tristan 2019, Hamilton Island, Australia, “Quantum logic and neural preference accumulation: a leap into the unknown or a new dawn for dynamic travel behaviour models?”, June 2019
  • Colombian Congress of Transit and Transport in Cartagena, “The luxury (and curse) of variety: choosing between data on real, hypothetical and virtual travel behaviour, and avoiding fake data”, June 2019
  • TRANSW Symposium Sydney, “Innovative travel demand modelling using novel data sources”, November 2018
  • ICW 2018, Santiago, Chile, “From brainwaves to utilities: what can choice modellers learn from neuroscience and mathematical psychology?”, August 2018
  • ENVECHO 2017, Bern, “Quo vadis choice modelling in environmental research: more of the same or brave new departures?”, September 2017
  • Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop, Shanghai, “Travel demand modelling and the twin challenges of urbanisation and new data”, July 2017
  • Third Workshop On Non-Market Valuation (WONV), Nancy, France, “An outsider’s view on choice modelling work in environmental economics”, June 2015
  • 10th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods, Leura, Australia “Challenges for very large transport models: the example of TransTools3”, November 2014
  • Air Travel Research Society Conference, Tainan, Taiwan, “New directions in air travel behaviour modelling”, June 2012
  • TRB Conference on Innovations in Travel Modelling (ITM), Tempe, Arizona “Conflicting interpretations of respondent heterogeneity”, May 2010

Invited conference, symposia and workshop presentations

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  • Cátedra Europa workshop, Universidad del Norte, Colombia, Plenary Presenter on “Deriving transport appraisal values from emerging data sources”, October 2021
  • ISPOR 2021, Invited workshop presentation on “Accounting for Preference Heterogeneity in Stated Preference Studies”, May 2021
  • Workshop on qualitative attributes in stated choice surveys, University of the Basque Country, Plenary Presenter on “Disentangling heterogeneity in attribute interpretation from heterogeneity in preferences”, January 2020
  • Workshop in honour of Daniel McFadden, University of California at Santa Barbara, Plenary Presenter on “Homo economicus vs the reptilian brain: insights from mathematical psychology and neuroscience”, August 2018
  • Workshop on “Advancing the Science of travel demand modelling”, University of California at Berkeley, Plenary Presenter on “Reflections on choice modelling for travel demand modelling”, April 2017
  • Symposium on regret minimisation, Delft University, Plenary presenter on “Limitations and contrasts: re-evaluating the benefits of alternatives to RUM”, September 2016
  • Symposium in Honour of Dan McFadden, Université Cergy Pontoise, Paris, Plenary presenter on “Advances in value of time modelling and implications for practice”, December 2015
  • Applied Health Econometrics Symposium, Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds, plenary presenter on “Incorporating attitudinal constructs in choice models: theory and an application to back pain”, October 2014
  • 3rd European Workshop on Discrete Choice Modelling, Padua, plenary presenter on “Intra-respondent heterogeneity in a stated choice survey on wetland conservation in Belarus: first steps towards creating a link with uncertainty in contingent valuation” and “Maximise your utility by minimising your regret: contrasts between two decision paradigms”, February 2014
  • Third Danish Choice Modelling Day, University of Southern Denmark, Odense Plenary presenter on “Maximise your utility by minimising your regret: contrasts between two decision paradigms”, December 2013
  • University of Leeds research day on decision making, plenary presentation on “How do individuals make decisions? Contributions from the field of choice modelling”, April 2013
  • 2nd European Workshop on Discrete Choice Modelling, Berlin, plenary presenter on “Linking response quality to survey engagement: a combined random scale and latent variable approach” and “Stop attending to non-attendance”, February 2013
  • 13th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Toronto, Resource paper presentation: “When explanatory variables are unobserved: the example of latent income”, July 2012
  • Workshop on noise and imprecision in individual and interactive decision-making, University of Warwick, plenary presenter on “Random utility approaches to noise and imprecision”, April 2012
  • Conjoint Analysis in Health Care conference, Orlando, Florida, plenary presenter in panel session on “Collaborating across disciplines”, March 2012
  • Bilbao European Workshop on Discrete Choice Experiments, plenary presenter on “Can scale and coefficient heterogeneity be separated in random coefficients models?”, February 2012
  • 91st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., Workshop on “Moving Beyond Quantitative Attributes in Stated-Response Surveys: Understanding the Role of Qualitative Variables in Travel Choices”, presentation on “What If Some People Don’t Care? Accommodating Low Importance Ratings for Qualitative Attributes in Our Models”, January 2012
  • First Danish Choice Modelling Day, University of Southern Denmark, Odense Plenary presenter on “Hybrid choice models”, December 2011
  • Second International Choice Modelling Conference, Oulton Hall, Leeds, workshop presentation on “Working with repeated choice data”, July 2011
  • UKTRC Scanning Exercise Workshop 2: Theories of individual-level decision-making and the modelling of travel behaviour data, Imperial College London, plenary presenter on “Individual specific choice behaviour: heterogeneity and the role of scale, attitudes, decision rules and data processing strategies”, April 2011
  • 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., Workshop on “Fundamentals of Stated-Choice Studies: Practical Guide to Designing and Implementing Stated-Choice Surveys”, presentation on “Discrete Choice Models and Related Issues”, January 2010
  • Oslo workshop on valuation methods in transport planning, Oslo, presentation on “A latent class approach to modelling heterogeneous information processing strategies in SP studies”, March 2007
  • UK/ Canada Workshop on Urban Energy Efficiency, Toronto, plenary presenter on “Consumer response and spatio-temporal behaviour”, November 2006
  • German Aviation Research Society workshop on Benchmarking and Airport Competition, Vienna, presentation on “Competition between London Airports”, November 2005
  • First workshop on discrete choice models, EPFL Lausanne, presentation on “Some issues in modelling the value of travel time savings”, September 2005
  • German Aviation Research Society workshop on Slots, Airport Competition and Benchmarking of Airports, Bremen, presentation on “Understanding airport choice behaviour”, November 2004
  • Workshop in computational econometrics and statistics, Neuchatel University, Switzerland, presentation on “Recent developments in the area of simulation-based discrete choice models”, April 2004